Thread: shave ready versus shave tested

Shave tested, is an evaluation of the razor condition, while shave ready is its condition.

IMHO shave ready is just that, it's ready to shave. Shave tested just backs up that it's capable of shaving it doesn't account for your skills in honing just your word. But of course as you all say it's a matter of opinion. I've bought razors off the classifieds here that were "shave ready", and when I went ot use it, it was not IMO. A light touch up and it was ready to go. No biggie, but to some w/o hones it is.

You don't know if a razor is shave ready until you shave test it..but shave testing it does not mean the razor is shave ready. You can shave test a razor till the cows come home but if it's not shave ready then you're just running metal over your face...make sense? In the end, you have to know what both terms actually mean and better yet how they feel on your face.

Absolutely not. In none of my posts did I mention ebay. Please review my posts

Very droll. if only it were witty

Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses

I stand ready to compare my honing work with yours
Is there an annual meeting place?

Absolutely, there are so many who claim to have a shave ready razor so I was looking for a phrase that conveyed better that it was shave ready and had been ready to go

absolutely not, please check your facts first

Quotes are your friends! I have no idea who you're talking to in your posts above!

If quotes aren't your friends, you should probably get yourselves acquainted.

Also, while I certainly see where you're coming from, 'shave tested' was probably a poor choice of term because, as many have said, just because it's been tested doesn't mean it's in shave ready condition and you're back at square one.

Originally Posted by PigHog

Quotes are your friends! I have no idea who you're talking to in your posts above!

+1

And again, no offense.

I'm not sure who you (OP) are talking to, but there are many meet ups in various areas of the USA and probably other countries. My understanding is that these are not competitions where edges are competing for titles.

I'm sorry if anything I said offended you or anyone else. I consider myself new here and try to act accordingly (with a little snarkiness tossed because I'm a happy guy that likes to joke around). In my short tenure here I have met some really fantastic people that joke similarly and we seem to "get" one another.

Perhaps your suggestion for new terminology is solid, I just think the common 'shave ready' terminology works fine and seems ubiquitous (and my limited searching reveals that it has worked quite well for a long time...but as I said, I'm new here so I won't attempt to alter the status quo)

Originally Posted by PigHog

Quotes are your friends! I have no idea who you're talking to in your posts above!

If quotes aren't your friends, you should probably get yourselves acquainted.

Originally Posted by unit

+1

Just multi-quoting as an example. Think of the headaches that could be avoided.